Robyn Gallagher

Robyn's Secret Passage

Month: August, 2008

When it stops raining, we leave the house

Art I went to two art exhibitions – the giant Affordable Art Show at the TSB Arena and the much smaller Drawing Parallels exhibition at ROAR! gallery. The Affordable Art Show was full of the kind of art that people buy to decorate their homes with. Before I went there, I’d been out looking for [...]

Put down the semi-colon and let the participle dangle

When I started my old job working in the production of closed captions for the telly, I was fairly confident of my knowledge of the English language. I knew the difference between it’s and its, who’s and whose, and other sorts of things that Lynn Truss wailed about in “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”. And I [...]